Quotes About Bliss

Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse :)

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.

We have the assurance of the enlightened beings that reality is goodness, that reality is freedom from suffering, that reality is bliss. So we should never fear to open ourselves to reality, to cast aside our preconceptions and biases, and to open more and more to whatever turns out to be real. You can have faith in enlightenment, faith in evolutionary potential, faith in infinity, faith in your infinite self. (p. 222)

Buddhas have more fun.

Life drifting, in its continuous, unpredictable flow. Life inimitable. Japanese Buddhism teaches us that art (or bliss) is surprise, it cannot be calculated. It is a prey, a catch: "Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod" (the fish that arises from nowhere).

If there's another world, he lives in bliss;If there is none, he made the best of this.

An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth: Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.

that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily

When one is happy in forgetfulness, facts get forgotten

If the human race didn't remember anything it would be perfectly happy.

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert

They had a sort of talent for happiness.

She was too happy to sleep just yet.

Den lyckliga människan är den gåtfullaste

The problem was that such simple, ordinary bliss seldom formed memories. It was too smooth and silken to adhere. It was the bad stuff, ragged and uneven, that caught, like all those plastic grocery bags stuck in the trees of Baltimore.

That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.

I felt like shit, but it was happy shit.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.

The older I get the more I realize that ignorance may not be bliss, but sometimes it beats the alternative.

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

when you're so happy that you have to close your eyes when you smile so that your eyes don't jump out of your head